Jukai Studio, the developer of othe action-horror recreation Stray Souls has introduced its shutdown.
This follows the closure (a minimum of in its earlier kind) of the sport’s writer Versus Evil.
In keeping with the announcement made on X (previously Twitter) the sport’s poor reception and the lack of supporting the corporate resulting from poor gross sales had been the basis trigger behind its closure.
The Builders additionally declare they’ve suffered bullying on-line and authorized motion is being taken towards it.
We hear that the core crew of Jukai Studio included solely two builders, whereas the remainder of the work was outsourced.
You possibly can learn the assertion in its entirety under.
After a lot contemplation and in gentle of right this moment’s information that our writer has introduced closure, now we have determined to not delay in informing you that we’re shutting down Jukai Studio.
A few of you will have seen that our web site has not been functioning for a while, and now we have not been as lively as earlier than. There are numerous causes for this, however one of many major ones is that now we have fallen sufferer to cyberbullying, obtained a poor reception for our debut venture Stray Souls, and had been utterly unable to maintain the corporate due to unhealthy gross sales, resulting in the choice having to be made this 12 months.
We’re conscious that you simply had excessive expectations for Stray Souls, however we by no means knowledgeable you that solely two core people, together with contracted personnel, had been engaged on the sport. We did all the things in our energy to deliver the venture to completion in the very best kind, however all through your complete period, we, our writer employees, different writer dev groups and our closed ones had been always attacked by a cyber persecutor, and a few of you, as our neighborhood, had been additionally tormented with undesirable messages and emails. We perceive that you simply didn’t want to proceed actively supporting us for the plain causes talked about above. The matter is now within the arms of our legal professionals, so we can’t talk about it any additional, however know that we’ll not abandon it regardless of the studio’s closure.
As soon as once more, we wished to thank all of you who supported us and didn’t hand over regardless of the adversities that befell each you and us. We sincerely thank everybody for believing in us. Nobody from Jukai Studio has been laid off as a result of we by no means functioned as a big company, and collectively we determined that every one among us will go their separate method.
Jukai Studio consisted of a really wonderful and proficient group of people that believed within the success of the venture till the top. Regardless of this unhappy information, Stray Souls stays in your arms. In conclusion, we wish to add that this 12 months has been very troublesome not just for us, and we hope that 2024 shall be a 12 months of constructive adjustments on the planet of recreation improvement. Thanks to everybody who supported us.
Stray Souls is presently accessible for PC through Steam, the place It presently has “principally unfavorable” opinions, with gamers criticizing the sport mechanics, story, and several other bugs.
This isn’t the primary studio to shut not too long ago because of the poor reception of its recreation. The identical occurred to The Day Earlier than developer Fntastic, albeit issues does not look fairly as unhealthy right here.
For now, it seems that Stray Souls is staying accessible on Steam for many who wish to buy it and play it, regardless of the closure of the studio that created it.
